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The Palestine-Israeli conflict:

a beginner's guide
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Oneworld, 2003 - History - 238 pages
Giving a thorough and accessible account of the Palestine-Israeli conflictast, present and future, this text is jointly authored by an American rabbind Professor of Judaism, and a Palestinian lecturer on Islam. The result is real insight into the bitter truths at the heart of this situation, withach author giving full vent to the emotions behind the two sides of theebate without avoiding any issues, however confrontational andonflict-ridden. The conclusion is a direct exchange between the two authors,hich raises many further issues, but which does see both sides holding outope for resolution and a real solution in the future.

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Review: The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: A Beginner's Guide

User Review  - Jessica - Goodreads

An informative background to a quite complicated subject. It's quite probable that no text can fully illuminate this conflict, but this Beginner's Guide gives it a good shot. Especially unique is the ... Read full review

Review: The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: A Beginner's Guide (Oneworld Beginners' Guides)

User Review  - Tiredstars - Goodreads

This book is intended as a primer on the history of the conflict, with half written by an Israeli and half by a Palestinian academic, followed by a little engagement between them. As a history of ... Read full review

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two beyond the first world war
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three the jewish state
38
four the sixday war and its aftermath
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Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Cambridge University (UK) and an honorary doctorate in divinity from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He has written numerous books, including The Blackwell Dictionary of Judaica and Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers. He is currently Professor of Judaism at the University of Wales, Lampeter, Wales. Previous books include The Crucified Jew: Twenty Centuries of Christian Anti-Semitism and God and the Holocaust.

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